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Hi everyone, and welcome back to the next season of Canadian True Crime.

Thank you for joining me, and I hope that you're all as well as can be expected in these very, very strange times.

So this month, there happened to be three episodes, a series, and they'll be released a week

apart with part two coming September the 8th and part three on the 15th. And the series

does carry an additional content warning. It's not the focus of the case, but there is

mention of the

hunting and killing of animals, as well as the grooming and sexual assault of a minor.

Please take care when listening. If you're a supporter accessing early release episodes,

keep an eye on your feed because the ad-free versions of all three episodes are there now.

Also, you might notice a few tweaks to the

podcast. There's a new theme song by We Talk of Dreams, and I ditch that wordy introduction. I could

not stand it either. Well, I know you want to get right into it, so with that out of the way,

it's on with the show. Thanks again for tuning in.

Thank you. the way it's on with the show. Thanks again for tuning in. Just over 900 people live in the small town of Kaster, located in southeast Alberta about 140

kilometres east of red deer. It's a hub for many area farming families, including the Klaus family

who had established a multi-generational cattle farm on their expansive 2,000 acres in the 1940s.

By 2013, the farm was in the hands of Gordon Klaus and his wife Sandra.

They were in their early 60s with two adult children,

Monica, a 40-year-old HR professional and her younger brother Jason, who had spent all of his 38 years working and living on the family's farm.

And since neither Monica nor Jason had partnered up, it remained just the four of them.

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